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Imagine if you instead could loan/lease the books to your e-reader for the duration of the course and only pay for the relevant pages. I imagine that as soon a
by shpxnvz 17y ago
Imagine if you instead could loan/lease the books to your e-reader for the duration of the course and only pay for the relevant pages.
I imagine that as soon as physical textbooks were out of availability the cost of "only the relevant pages" would climb drastically. Without an active market in used textbooks, and with DRM preventing any reselling of the content you purchased, I have little doubt that the captive student market would be exploited as hard and as often as possible.
- stse 17y agoThe only real future for the publish industry that I see, with regard to course literature, is if they either create an outstanding service themselves or work together with the universities. I don't really see any drawback with electronic books that won't solve itself by time. The publishing industry faces some of the same challenges that the music industry did when the mp3 players started to become available. And similar to then people will start to think of books as data, and not psychical things. They need to realize this and make the most of it themselves, and not make litigation and DRM part of their business plan.
- shpxnvz 17y agoLook at what working with the universities did for student loans. American educational institutions have proven themselves perfectly willing to screw their students for a cut of the profits. Sure, that would be great for the publishing industry, just as it is for the student loan industry, but considering the cost to the student it doesn't seem like the outcome to root for.